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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:56:41 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com>
Cc:        Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD & ASUS A7V/VIA KT133 chipset
Message-ID:  <20000825125640.K39208@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000825032057.13268.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>; from gerti@bitart.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:20:56PM -0500
References:  <Pine.HPX.4.05.10008240818550.5974-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> <20000825113028.C39208@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000825032057.13268.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>

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On Thursday, 24 August 2000 at 22:20:56 -0500, Gerd Knops wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Thursday, 24 August 2000 at  8:34:58 -0500, Guy Helmer wrote:
>>> I'm looking at buying an ASUS A7V motherboard (for AMD Thunderbird
>>> & Duron CPUs) that uses the VIA KT133 chipset. Does anyone happen
>>> to have one of these working with FreeBSD? I noticed Steve Kargl's
>>> recent query about a minor problem with a somewhat similar board,
>>> the Abit KA7, and I would like to be sure about this motherboard...
>>
>> We have a bug in the timer code which some of these Athlon boards
>> trigger.  If you're affected, you'll get thousands of "microuptime
>> went backwards" messages.  The workaround is to disable APM.
>
> So far I have not observed that here with the ASUS A7V and a AMD
> Thunderbird (APM is compiled into the kernel).

To clarify things, I have no evidence that the A7V has ever had this
problem.  I just said "some of these boards", so Gerd's input is more
reliable.

Greg
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